Sebastian Tan

I’m originally from Pittsburgh, but I live in San Francisco. I took a gap year after high school to work at Palantir in New York, and shortly after, I moved to SF to start my own company.

I love hiking, running, eating, and anything outdoors or with friends. Before I die, I wanna learn how to sail and visit every (reasonably safe) country in the world. My favorite place I’ve been is Oxford. It’s genuinely one of the coolest college towns I’ve seen, and it’s surrounded by so much history.

In high school, I was the youngest member of the United States National Economics Team, which we dubbed “Harvard, Stanford, Sewickley.” I also developed an algorithm that helped thousands of people with criminal records gain meaningful employment.

Now, I code a little, read a lot, and spend a majority of my time running Formenos, a $25M AI-Native L/S Equity Hedge Fund. We’ve generated exceptional outcomes from making bets that are contrarian and right. After all, positions worth taking are ones you can successfully defend alone.